GT and RR will play against one another within the third playoff game of IPL 2026 in Recent Chandigarh on Friday, May 29. With 680 runs at an important strike rate of 242.85 in 15 innings, Vaibhav Suryavanshi is the leading run-getter up to now this season.
In a video shared on his YouTube channel, ‘Aakash Chopra,’ he said, “We had not envisaged that a 15-year-old kid could dictate every part, that each one your bowling plans could revolve around a child. It’s not like people haven’t include plans. Hyderabad had also include a plan. They tried bowling yorkers at first, but when you missed that mark and he hit two or three sixes, whether it was Pat Cummins or Eshan Malinga, they went off their plan massively.”
“It’s imperative for Gujarat to stop Vaibhav. How rarely do we are saying that it’s imperative? We haven’t said that even for Abhishek, Ishan, Rohit, or Virat, that if he fires, you won’t survive in any respect. We’re saying that with him, that if he plays 40 balls, it’s over. He’ll rating his hundred by the eleventh over, after which the team will probably be near 150. This kid is a special storm. It’s very obscure this storm,” he further added.
Nonetheless, Aakash Chopra also shared that the IPL 2026 Qualifier 2 between the Gujarat Titans and the Rajasthan Royals is a match between contrasting opening pairs as well.
“If there’s control on one side, there’s chaos on the opposite. In case you have a look at it when it comes to contribution, the GT openers have together scored 719 runs. The opposing ones have also scored 747. They’ve run at a strike rate of 206. In case you see the split, Vaibhav alone has scored 426, and that’s the big difference, because Yashasvi Jaiswal has a contribution of 291,” he said.
“The partnership’s strike rate is 206, but Vaibhav runs faster than that. Which philosophy would work more? There are more possibilities of RR’s philosophy working while batting first because then there aren’t any variables. There will probably be no scoreboard pressure. You may start a bit of fearlessly while batting first. You may actually control and destroy the Powerplay if you happen to bat first,” Chopra again added.
“Whenever you get to bat second and are chasing 250 or 230, you are feeling the duty to hit on every ball, but the possibilities of creating mistakes increase a bit of there. Gujarat don’t mind chasing so long as it’s not within the 220-230 range. They’re positive if it’s below that, but this team won’t rating lower than 220-230,” Aakash Chopra concluded.
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